Download Swarm Data

download.py

# pip install requests
import requests
import json
 
url_template = 'https://api.foursquare.com/v2/users/self/checkins?limit=250&oauth_token={}&v=20131026&offset={}'
 
# to find your oauth token you need to visit the swarm webapp and inspect your network requests, it will be attached
# to XHR requests once you scroll and it starts fetching timeline activity.
# https://www.swarmapp.com/activity
oauth_token = ""
offset = 0
data = []

with open("data.json", 'w') as f:
    while True:
        response = requests.get(url_template.format(oauth_token, offset))
        if len(response.json()['response']['checkins']['items']) == 0:
            break
        print response.json()
        data.append(response.json())
        offset += 250
            
    f.write(json.dumps(data))